As an improvement over a "Personal Prologue."

   The Prologue was a recital of symptoms, of surroundings, of limitations and deficiencies, of imperfections and unattained longings.

   The Epilogue is an assertion of Self.

   It took what wasn't I some twenty-two years to get through with the Prologue. It has taken Me five years to arrive at so much of the Epilogue as is here recorded. I haven't got very far yet en route for Truth. But you may observe the difference in speed when a personality follows the crowd and when an individual starts forth for itself.

   Personality is the envy of small souls--and the bane of great ones.

   Individuality is the terror of small souls--and the glory of great ones.

   I have called the Epilogue "A Declaration of Faith." NOT a "Confession." I do not apologize for my belief. I exult in it. And I yearn over any soul that has not one of equal proportions.

   It is fitting that Faith should supply the last word. Because in the end of all things, matter melts to mystery; Science halts dumb in the presence of Religion; Logic steps aside to make way for Love; Mind turns back to its earth-environ, and only Spirit soars on untrammeled to explore and accredit the unlogical, un-demonstrable, undebatable certitudes of the Almighty.

   I believe.

   I believe in believing.

   I believe that, next to loving, believing is wisest and most Godlike.

   I believe that the good of believing lies in the believing--not in the belief.

   I believe that your belief is none of my business.

   I believe that the belief of to-day may be unbelievable tomorrow, and needn't feel ashamed either.

   I believe that depth of belief without breadth is more desirable than breadth without depth.

   I believe that the absolute belief of the child may and should accompany the absolute knowledge of the man.

   I believe that Faith and Fact are not foes but friends--when each recognizes and respects the province of the other.

   I believe, however, that a blind belief is better than no belief.

   I believe that so long as a man's belief satisfies him, it is an unkindness to shake it, whether by reform, pessimism, or proselytism.

   I believe that the only way to justify a belief is to keep silent concerning it; and the only way to prove it is to live it.

   I believe that belief in Self is the highest form of belief--and the rarest.

   I believe in myself.

   I believe in you.

   I believe in everybody and everything.

   I believe in the undiminishable purity, sweetness, and strength of the human soul.

   I believe in the Fatherhood, Motherhood, and Babyhood of God.

   I believe in the gentleness of Justice and the far-sightedness of Fate.

   I believe in an all-pervasive Omniscience-Omnipotence, competent to deify any soul that trusts It.

   I believe in the wisdom that masters the intricacies of occult science--and the greater wisdom that forgets them.

   I believe in miracles that cease to be miracles when one knows the Law.

   I believe in the Bible--as the repository of the most and the best beliefs.

   I believe in Jesus as his own divine savior--and in Me as mine.

   I believe in the unchurched and unconfined Christ resident potential in every incarnate soul.

   I believe in the religion of kindness, thoughtfulness, courage, cheerfulness, and brotherly love.

   I believe in the charity never called by that name.

   I believe in the dignity of labor, the joy of work, the sweetness of rest, and the satisfaction of symmetry.

   I believe in the sacredness of the human body; and I shudder at the blasphemy of such as would hide it, bind it, abuse it, misrepresent it, or call it impure.

   I believe in the majesty, beauty, divinity, and ecstacy of Sex.

   I believe in a man's motherhood and a woman's brotherhood.

   I believe in the home where Love is--and no other.

   I believe in the divorce where Love is not--and no other.

   I believe in the avowed sinner more than in the avowed saint.

   I believe in the penalty that none save Nature inflicts.

   I believe in suffering as a refining process; and in the exquisite anguish of soul-travail.

   I believe in the immortality of my soul; therefore it matters not whether my name become immortal.

   I believe in both the dreams of the idealist and the deeds of the materialist; impression heavenward with expression earthward.

   I believe in the hope that every man has for himself; my hope being world-wide and eternity-long.

   I believe in a Consciousness that transcends the mortal; emerging from the mists of time, place, person and circumstance, till it melts clear and pure into the effulgence of the Most High.

   I believe that the world needs me.

   I believe that the world will reward me richly--when I deserve recompense.

   I believe that my poverty is nobody's fault but my own; therefore am I not a Socialist.

   I believe that my neighbor treats me as I treat him--or a little better; so I hold no grudge against anybody.

   I believe that my expression of belief helps me most; I am not concerned if nobody listens.

   I believe that the only way I can be faithful to you is to be faithful to myself.

   I believe that my only duty is to know and follow my desire.

   I believe that the Infinite is none too large for me to aspire to.

   I believe that countless eons have heaped themselves that I may lord them all; and I do.

   I believe that reform is as unwise as it is unavailing.

   I believe that polemics are futile if not fatal.

   I believe that criticism is a confession of impotence; since the critic is never the creator.

   I believe that codes of conduct are for cowards only.

   I believe that law-breakers are nearer right than law-makers.

   I believe that the crimes against criminals are the cruelest of all.

   I believe that the only sin is shutting one's eyes to the light in one's own soul.

   I believe that consistency is either lethargy or hypocrisy.

   I believe that Instinct is infallible--so far as not yet paralyzed by civilization.

   I believe that every man is part animal and part angel; if he be a man, he is neither ashamed of the one nor afraid of the other.

   I believe that life is more valuable than learning; and the day-laborer a truer counsellor than the college professor.

   I believe that there is no arrogance so haughty and so cruel as the pride of mentality.

   I believe that in general the more one knows the more one misunderstands.

   I believe that Truth is indivisible and illimitable, being neither scientific, religious, philosophical, commercial or sentimental.

   I believe that Science and Religion were born sisters, but that Superstition has parted them for the time being.

   I believe that in scientific parenthood lies the salvation of the race; but Science must not dictate to Love.

   I believe that Humanity is constantly improving; perhaps in a million ages it may be presentable.

   I believe that the only devil is the dread of our weaker mortality; and the only hell that sense of suffocation attending an earth-aura.

   I believe that Heaven is here and now in the hearts of the heavenly-minded; but that greater splendors transcending human imagination await us on the other side.

   I believe that Death is an angel of light, ushering the soul into a brighter palace of Possibility; and if our vision were fine enough, we could always catch a glimpse of glory as the portal swings open.

   I believe that the Millennium comes to each soul individually, marking the close of this earth-school of experience and the Commencement Day in a larger sphere.

   I believe that these beliefs and whatever truer may ensue will forever pale into nothingness beside the one thing

That Love Alone Suffices.